Alternate payment methods
Alternate payment methods
Posted Sep 14, 2026 16:49 UTC (Mon) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)In reply to: Alternate payment methods by cypherpunks2
Parent article: A note on subscription prices from LWN
> I do want to point out that that proof-of-stake algorithms have no problematic environmental impacts, unlike the proof-of-work algorithms
Don't proof-of-stake systems encourage the mass hoarding of storage hardware? While nowhere near as bad proof-of-work, that is not of zero environmental consequence (presuming they became popular). I'm quite out of the loop these days, though, I may be misinformed. If it does require lots of storage, presumably the squeeze caused by the AI industry has caused interesting things to happen there...
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